Replication material for "Do electoral candidates reflect or select campaign issues? The Influence of Electoral Manifestos on Online Communication"

1. To rerun the analysis several data sets need to be collected, which we can not provide directly due to sharing policies. All data sources are described in the paper and online appendix.

2. The first code file is "Data_preparation.rmd". Within the file the data is cleaned and tweets are classified based on the dictionary.
3. The main code file is "Analysis.rmd". Within the file all the analysis is conducted with the expetion of the fractional regression models. These models are calculated in STATA since the "frm" package for R was not available at the time of the data analysis. 